Psalms 83:7 - Exposition

Gebal . There is no reason to doubt that the Phoenician town of the name, mentioned in Ezekiel 27:9 , and alluded to in Joshua 13:5 and 1 Kings 5:18 , is meant. A southern Gebal, in the vicinity of Edom, is a fiction. Gebal was one of the most important of the Phoenician cities from the time of Shalmaneser II . to that of Nebuchadnezzar; see the author's 'History of Phoenicia,' p. 79. And Ammon. Ammon, like Moab, was a perpetual enemy of the Jewish people from their entrance into Palestine to the time of the Maccabees. And Amalek . The Amalekites, on the contrary, disappear from history from the time of their destruction by the Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah ( 1 Chronicles 5:1-26 :42, 43). The Philistines . Persistent enemies, like Edom, Moab, and Ammon (see I Macc. 5:66). With the inhabitants of Tyre. Tyre, in early times, was friendly to Israel ( 2 Samuel 5:11 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 9:26-28 ). and is not elsewhere mentioned as hostile until the reign of Uzziah ( Amos 1:9 ). She rejoiced, however, when Jerusalem was destroyed ( Ezekiel 26:2 ).